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“E-bikes are motorized vehicles,” Keith Ashmore, a Durango resident and cyclist, said earlier this year. “And I’m concerned about the slippery slope when the next guy comes and says, ‘I’m on a motorcycle, why can’t I use the trail?’” Come what may, Durango is on the path to allow them – it just may take some time. “It’s very challenging and unfortunately it’s going to take a while for the powers that be to figure that out,” Baxter said. “But we are encouraging and supporting it to happen.”
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City Councilor Kim Baxter told The Durango Telegraph on Wednesday the council didn’t want to allow higher classes of e-bikes (the higher the class, the more motorized) because they didn’t to send the message that “anything motorized could be in open space, because that’s not the intention.” How this all plays out is anyone’s guess. The state of Colorado has taken e-bikes out of the motorized category and reclassified them alongside regular bikes. Can the City of Durango follow suit? That’s what city councilors want to find out, Baxter said.
– Has anybody heard from these people ? High voltage Durango City Council came out on Tuesday in favor of allowing e-bikes on the city’s natural surface trails, but there’s going to need to be legal wrangling to make it happen. As it stands, e-bikes are not allowed on natural surface trails located on city open space (except Twin Buttes). However, city councilors don’t have the authority to just vote to allow e-bikes, and here’s why. Much of the city’s open space is designated as a conservation easement – land protected from development that holds certain restrictions. And one of those restrictions is motorized vehicles. Agree with it or not, e-bikes, which have a motor, are considered motorized vehicles within the legal framework of a conservation easement. City councilors, however, directed staff on Tuesday to explore how to amend the terms of conservation easements to allow Class 1 ebikes, which are pedal-assisted with no throttle, and have a maximum speed of 20 mph.
Another caveat is that GOCO, the state agency that reinvests a portion of lottery money in the outdoors – which helped purchase Durango’s conservation easements – has yet to come out with a policy on e-bikes. If, for instance, GOCO comes out and says e-bikes are classified as nonmotorized, then they would be allowed in Durango’s open space.
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Durango’s open space is a complicated patchwork, with some parts in conservation easement, some not. According to the city’s website, Durango has protected more than 3,091 acres of land since 1994; 742 of which were dedicated through the planning process or donation.WithCity Council’s vote Tuesday, Horse Gulch would be the first to allow e-bikes, followed by Overend Mountain Park and Dalla Mountain Park. But that’s not to say e-bikes are not without detractors. The City of Durango has studied whether to allow e-bikes on natural surface trails for years, which has raised concerns over high speeds, wildlife disturbance and overcrowding, to name a few.
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We all need worthy goals. A full life requires challenges to keep ourselves engaged with the world and growing as complex, occasionally interesting human beings. I myself, having already achieved everything else I haven’t given up on, am now questing for the perfect nap. This idea arrived to me on four heavy-duty wheels. I was sitting at a restaurant, minding my own eggs, when another guest pushed a fully off-road-capable stroller across the patio, running right over chairs and a server’s foot without so much as a whimper from the stroller’s shock absorbers. I peeked inside while the stroller-pusher ordered her midday Bloody Mary, and there lay, sleeping peacefully, the most contented wiener dog I have seen this week. And I thought: “Zach, you deserveSadly,this.”though – and despite my very best efforts – I didn’t get to try out the all-terrain stroller for myself. But I had found my new mission, with nothing in my way to stop me. Nothing, that is, but everything.Adulthood, or any reasonable facsimile thereof, sucks all the fun out of any given activity. Take this column. I set an alarm to wake up before 6 a.m. to get it done three days after deadline. But because I am an adult who doesn’t have time for naps, I was sufficiently tired enough to sleep through three alarms and an insistent dog nose. Unfortunately, those post-alarm hours don’t count as a nap. They were too adjacent to normal nighttime sleepytime time. Nor were they rejuvenating, like, at all. They put me behind schedule before I even woke up, which means once again I still won’t get a nap today. Everything changed when I hit adulthood sometime in the last two or so decades, and in ways no one warned me about. Playing catch after sundown? It actually is too dark to see the ball. It literally disappears. Turning down the volume on the car radio really does help me find the right address. Yes, I really do use a car radio instead of a Spotify. And on the rare occasions I take to the couch for a midday sleep snack, one of two things happens: I try to take the nap but the nap won’t take me or I sleep so hard I wake up put together all wrong.
A senior Russian oil executive –whose company criticized the invasion of Ukraine – dying after “falling from a window” in a building in Moscow. Because people fall out of windows all the time.
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Reports that traffic fatalities have surged since the pandemic, reversing a persistent decline since the 1970s. Gee, we would have never thought just looking at all the amazing and totally capable drivers out there.
A record-setting heat wave scorching much of the West, just when we were starting to dream of ski season.
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This latter result occurred over the weekend when I was busy not writing this column. I woke up in my own home, in the daylight, and didn’t know where I was or, in any meaningful way, who I was. My eyeballs had declared free agency during the adult-napping attempt, and each one rolled in directions unsynchronized with the other. I sat up and got kicked with a feeling of nausea in line with taking up residence in an alien body. And the very first cogent thought to mold itself in my brain was: “I really need to do last year’s taxes.”
The City of Durango offering a new rebate program to incentivize homeowners to build ADUs and agree to rent the units out exclusively to members of the local workforce. Ukrainian firefighters saving a kitten from a burning building. It’s nice to know that even when your country is being invaded by a foreign aggressor, you can still pull the heartwarming firefighter/cat save. Scientists researching a special jellyfish that’s genes may hold the key to immorality for humans. Because who wouldn’t want to keep doing this forever?
• I wake up, let the dogs out, make some coffee, take the dogs for a walk so one of them doesn’t chew his own foot off with excess energy, come home, make breakfast, read a baseball blog, stack dishes in the sink, swear I will wash them later, and get to work around 9 a.m. or sometimes 11:30 a.m.
• I stop working to drive to some appointment or other – because how does ANYONE work when all the things one has to take care of during the week are only available during working hours? – and then return home to lunch and thoughts of a nap. But no, there’s still work to be done, and only two hours remain until my self-imposed clockout time, which I stick to in order to maintain a healthy work/life balance.
• I overshoot my self-imposed clock-out time because people just keep emailing me and it never stops. I could still take a nap, but by this point it would just be an early bedtime, and as nice as that sounds, the dogs need to be walked one more time so one of them doesn’t chew my arm off in my sleep. And what do you know, it’s midnight, and once again I haven’t done the dishes, let alone my taxes or looking into hiring someone to push me around in my king-sized dog stroller. But one night, somehow not too tired to dream, I dreamed I took a nap. And it was perfect.
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Fail Jason Allen won first place in the digital art category in this year’s Colorado State Fair. However, after he won, Jason posted online that his winning piece, “Theatre D’Opera Spatial,” was created by AI and took seconds to generate, which didn’t sit well with the artists who spent hours on their pieces only to lose to a computer program. The judges said Jason didn’t break any rules and that they would’ve made the same decision had they known he used AI, which is a perfect example of natural stupidity.
See? Absolutely not myself. I took the dogs for a long walk to return into my own familiar being, and it didn’t work. The nap wrecked me for two days. Nearly as bad as drinking, which now wrecks me for three. And I never could shake the feeling that I really ought to consider finishing last year’s taxes before this year’s are due – or is it the year before’s? I don’t have time to practice napping, let alone stay on top of the bureaucratic hassles of adulthood – hassles I did NOT sign up for – because every wellmeaning day goes like this:
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Claire “That song ‘Proud to be an American’ by Lee Greenwood. It’s not an un-patriotic thing either; it’s just the cheesiest song ever. Oh, and the banjo.” With all the hubbub over clock towers and train whistles, graph asked: sound
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Three’s company
Three countries that threaten the interests of the United States and the security of countries around the world are China, North Korea and Russia. China is flexing its military muscle in the western Pacific. It has occupied and fortified islands in the South China Sea, claimed sovereignty over the South China Sea and continuously threatens Taiwan. It is significantly expanding its navy to project its military power and control maritime trade routes in the Pacific. More concerning is the increased Chinese development of nuclear delivery systems, which are projected to number 700 to 1,000 deliverable warheads by 2030. The U.S. should encourage Japan, the Philippines, Australia and India to expand their military forces to deter China’sNorthambitions. Koreacontinues to threaten South Korea and the U.S., and its overall aim is to conquer South Korea. North Korea threatens the U.S. with its longrange missiles. Gen. Kang Pyo Yong of North Korea said in 2013: “When we shell (the missiles), Washington, which is the stronghold of evils, will be engulfed in a sea of fire.” The U.S. has to support robust South Korean and Japanese militaries.Russia’s war against Ukraine foretells President Vladimir Putin’s desire to return his country to the days of the former Soviet Union. He wants to bring the eastern European countries back into the Russian fold. NATO countries, including the U.S., are supporting Ukraine to halt the Russian aggression. The addition of Sweden and Finland to NATO, and the military buildup of NATO countries, will hopefully deter Russian aggression. – DonaldLondonderry,Moskowitz,N.H. Get angry By overturning Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court overturned a woman’s right to keep control over her own body. We have already seen the true cruelty of this decision: a 10-year-old rape victim refused an abortion, and a woman whose fetus has no chance of survival forced to carry it because her doctor could face life in prison for reducing her suffering. But we are not far from the possibility of having this tragedy reversed. Congress can pass a law enshrining a woman’s right to choose. In fact, the House of Representatives has already passed it, in the form of “The Women’s Health ProtectionThisAct.”law could be passed by a simple majority if 50 senators voted to overturn the filibuster. Currently, two Democratic senators, Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema, have refused. But if Democrats can keep a majority in the House and gain two seats in the Senate, the filibuster could be overturned and a woman’s right to control her own body could be made legal again.
Making life better Barbara McLachlan is our Colorado State House Representative, now running for her fourth and final term.
Looking at election results for recent decades, you’ll notice a couple things: it’s been a long time since District 59
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Thankfully, there are brand new signs posted in the streets of New York that say no guns are allowed, even if you have a registered concealed-weapon permit. A felony comes your way if you are found with any kind of firearm in public settings. Will this keep former President Trump from pulling out a gun – as he said he could do in the streets of New York City? Remember he said he could kill anyone and not get prosecuted because of all his adoring fanatics who give him a pass for any wrongdoings. Many still kiss the ring of this guy now living in Florida. Trump is responsible for the Jan. 6 insurrection on Capitol Hill, where people were killed and injured. Many ring-kissers have said there will be “riots in the streets” if Trump gets cited for stealing top secret documents from The White House and bringing them to Mar-a-Loco, also known as Mar-a-Lago. What will it take to get the 70 million that voted for Trump in November 2020 to get a real Republican role model to enter the 2024 presidential race? Surely, there are Republicans with morals and scruples to take the helm. My father was a Republican and my mother was a Democrat, so I am all for the very best this country can offer on either side of the aisle.
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It is being widely circulated in the mass media that Donald Trump said he would issue pardons to those convicted of storming the U.S. Capitol building on Jan. 6, 2021. That is one of the most troubling, dangerous and potentially damaging statements I have ever heard or read.IfTrump were re-elected president and followed through on that, he would hollow out the formal legal system in the U.S. and violate the fundamental principles and laws of our democratic republic. Any semblance of law and order would be savagely, unthinkably and irretrievably trampled on and tossed aside. Lawlessness would follow.
elected anyone for more than one term; and McLachlan’s electoral victory margin has steadily increased with each election. Why is she so popular?
A lot of reasons support McLachlan’s return to the State House. For starters, her personal characteristics: she is warm and open, ready to talk with anyone about the issues that affect them, and she does so with a respectful curiosity and careful listening. This explains how she has been able to reach across the aisle so successfully, originating and supporting bipartisan legislation that helps Colorado families, workers, ranchers and businesses. She brings no ideological agenda to her job but one: to make life better for every Coloradan by truly representing the diverse community in town and countryside. Her intelligence comes through at once with her thorough grasp of the information that leads to good legislation. Her legislative record is stunning on multiple issues affecting Colorado residents. In 2022 alone, bills she sponsored that were signed into law covered: education (she chairs the House Education Committee, with 15 bills signed into law); health care (3); business and finance (3); tribal legislation (4); transportation (3); and agriculture (2 bills plus 2 amendments).
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In Colorado, Sen. Michael Bennet has consistently supported women’s right to choose while his opponent, Joe O’Dea, has pushed for restrictions. Adam Frisch, a Democrat running for Colorado’s 3rd Congressional District, believes that the government has no place in decisions between a woman and her doctor. His opponent, incumbent Republican Lauren Boebert, has passed more than a dozen bills restricting women’s right to access reproductive health.
It’s time to get angry and reclaim our rights. Get registered and vote Nov. 8 for Sen. Michael Bennet and Adam Frisch.
– AdeleHesperusRiffe,
“To know Barbara is to vote for her” – she is uniquely qualified to represent our beautiful rural Four Corners area. Visit https://barbaramclachlan.com/–Cyndi Ortman, Durango
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Let freedom ring
The American way
For now, our current president, Joe Biden, is a seasoned politician with wisdom to keep us safe from becoming an oppressed country like Russia. God bless America, and may real freedom ring forever from the Liberty Bell and not from an autocrat.
It is time to take Trump at his word and denounce such radical, non-American talk. He must be called to account, just as those who stormed the U.S. Capitol who have been charged, tried, convicted and sentenced. Hundreds more will be charged and prosecuted as the legal system works in its constitutionally ascribed ways. That is the American way. Any lesser approach leads to anarchy or dictatorial rule.
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What he found out through the Forest Service was more than an issue of throwing rocks, though. He learned that Cascade Canyon was actually privately owned, and that if climbers, hikers or anyone wanted to continue going there, someone would have to purchase the property and turn it into a conservation easement.
Climbers coalesce around common mission to protect
The popular climbing area on the northern city limits has had an uptick of users over the years, especially since the pandemic and ensuing outdoor recreation boom. With the rise of foot traffic, the trail to the crag has seen a lot of
JusttheFacts What: “Higher Together: Celebrating Durango’s Climbing Community,” featuring films, silent auction fundraiser and Q&A Who: Presented by the Durango Climbers Coalition When: Fri., Sept. 9, 6-9 p.m. Where: Pine Needle Mountaineering, 835 Main Ave. For info.: durangoclimberscoalition@gmail.com
Mehall is a local rock climber and self-proclaimed “metro dirtbagger,” meaning he doesn’t wear ripped pants (mostly), owns a home, often showers and only considers himself an anarchist when he’s monkeywrenching for what he sees as just in an otherwise unjust system. Mehall has historically advocated for the stewardship and protection of climbing areas including Bears Ears National Monument, Indian Creek and Cascade Creek. It was an incident at the latter of these three areas that led Mehall to form the Climber’s Coalition in 2016-ish. He and his friends were climbing at Cascade Creek when some other whippersnappers were unknowingly pelting rocks at them from above. The non-malicious occurrence kept happening, and so Mehall reached out to the Forest Service for “Wehelp.spoke to the Forest Service to see if they could put up a sign that just asked people not to throw rocks,” Mehall recalled.
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The brains behind the Climber’s Coalition is no stranger to the local climbing community. Luke Mehall created the group sometime around 2016. “Obama might have been president,” Mehall jokingly said, trying to recall the exact year. The coalition went dormant for a few years, he said, until about 2020, when it picked up steam.
While the ownership of Cascade Canyon issue is still an open, albeit private, case, the Coalition is closing in on some other great projects around town. It has tackled tough graffiti clean-ups in the Sailing Hawks and X Rock bouldering areas, replaced old and dangerous bolts and anchors on popular local climbing routes, and advocated for responsible crag stewardship. They have brought together Durango’s dirtbags and non dirtbags alike to help foster a community, and in doing so, grew their support.
Mehall said that opened a can of worms and led him and his friends down a rabbit hole that ultimately resulted in the organization of the Durango Climbers Coalition.
“We just started teaming up with all these groups to do the clean-up,” Mehall said about the group’s most recent project at X Rock.
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TopStory by Jennaye Derge You might call them hooligans, grandmothers call them whippersnappers, and I, myself, call them my friends. But true-blue rock climbers will hold their heads high and call themselves “dirtbags.”
Dirtbags are known for their ripped-up jeans and anarchist attitudes, but there is a group in Durango who is disrupting that stigma.
The Durango Climber’s Coalition is a newish nonprofit advocacy group created to help the betterment of area climbing crags by working with the very institutions dirtbags are known for rebelling against. It was created to give the dirtbag a much better reputation and whose goal is to have a positive impact and give back.
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The Durango Climber’s Coalition is a new nonprofit advocacy group that was created to improve and maintain climbing crags. How do they get it done? Well, by working with the very institutions dirtbags are known for rebelling against. Here, graffiti is removed from the popular X Rock bouldering and climbing area./ Courtesy photo
“For them to be out here moving hundred-pound rocks and feeling strong for their first job, they were saying things like, ‘I didn’t know I had the strength to do this,’” DiTore said of the students.
In addition, for many of them, this was their first job or their first time camping, so they were pushing themselves outside of their comfort zones.
The program, she says, used to be small with about 12 students per summer, but with additional funding – mostly from the state’s Great Outdoors Colorado (GOCO) program – and more interest from the community, she was able to move into a more youth-focused role, and the program quadrupled in size. Now, they have upwards of 60 kids ranging from 14 to 18 years old in paid positions doing conservation work each summer in the community.“It’sawesome because they’re working in their back yards, they’re improving the lands, they’re gaining a ton of experience in leadership, communications and conservation skills in general,” DiTore said.
The students worked on the X Rock trail for two weeks, camping near town at night and going back to the trail to work during the day. Together, they put in 20 rock steps and a 20-foot multi-tiered rock wall topped with sustainable tread to help fix erosion and drainage issues. They also rerouted the trail, making it more accessible and easier to walk on. After the crew finished its allotted two weeks, the Climber’s Coalition held a trail-work day and many of the students – who were by no means obligated to – showed up simply because they were proud of the work they’d put into it.
So, as far as dirtbag climbers or hooligan youths go, perhaps anarchy is turning into advocacy, and the grandmas of the world will be pleased with this new era of whippersnappers. photo
“They were stoked … they were very excited,” DiTore said. And now the community can get stoked and excited. Not only has the trail been made more user friendly by the SCC and the rocks scrubbed of graffiti by the Climber’s Coalition, but the parking area has been leveled to allow for easier vehicle access. But there is still some trail work left, and there are upcoming trail work days where the community is invited to come out and help – and admire the crew’s hard work.“Sometimes people look at youth crews and think they can’t do projects like this,” DiTore said. “It was cool to see them go out to X Rock and just blow everyone out of the water. They did such an amazing job.”
The climbers connected with the City of Durango, La Plata County and the Bureau of Land Management, all who manage various parts in and around the climbing area. The groups did a walkthrough to determine what needed to be done and who needed to do it, and that is how the Southwest Conservation Corps’ (SCC) Youth Crew was brought in. SCC is a chapter of a much larger, national organization called Conservation Legacy, which serves in building and maintaining trails to preserve land, air, water, animals, people – pretty much our entire habitable ecosystem. The organization’s larger goal is to build better communities by connecting people to the land where they live. “Next thing I knew, we had a crew of teenagers out there doing trail work,” MehallTeresarecalled.DiTore is the Youth Programs Manager and the person responsible for these Conservation Corps teenagers; and she couldn’t be more excited for them. A Durango resident, DiTore has been working with SCC for 6½ years and has watched the youth program grow exponentially in that time.
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telegraph wear and tear, including erosion and trash. So, the good dirtbag stewards of Durango decided to reach out to land management entities to try to do something about it.
Boulder resident Cynthia Allison said the biggest reason she decided to make the switch was her opposition to hydraulic fracturing. She hired Elephant Energy to rip out her gas furnace last week and replace it with an all-electric heat pump, an efficient electric appliance capable of warming and cooling her home. “I’ve decided to put my money where my mouth is,” Allison said. “I’m fortunate that I can afford to do this.” What about those federal discounts?
Sam Calisch, of electrification advocacy group Rewiring America, said the incentives can be broken up into two categories: tax rebates and upfront discounts.
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Not in Colorado. Another set of state-level incentives will go into effect in 2023. Under legislation signed earlier this year, Colorado residents who buy heat pumps won’t pay sales tax on the purchase. They can also apply for a tax credit to refund 10% of the cost.
What about less-wealthy households?
Starting next year, households can apply for an expanded home energy-efficiency tax credit. This credit allows households to deduct up to 30% of the cost of certain home upgrades, including heat pumps, heat-pump water heaters, insulation and electrical panels to handle the extra electrical load.
By Sam Brasch Colorado Public Radio
Households earning up to 150% of their area median income could receive smaller discounts. An additional $4.5 billion rebate program would fund projects to improve home energy efficiency. When can I get the rebates?
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One caveat: If those credits add up, it could quickly exhaust a family’s total tax liability. Calisch said that’s why those programs tend to favor higher-income households with higher tax bills.
Xcel Energy, Colorado’s largest power company, currently offers a range of heat pump rebates worth up to $2,000.
Indoor air quality is another potential benefit. One recent study found pollution inside residential buildings harms more people than pollution from power plants. Environmental groups have pointed to those sorts of findings to petition the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to set zero-emission standards for water heaters and furnaces, effectively pushing builders toward all-electric homes.
Dominique Gómez, the deputy director of the Colorado Energy Office, said the state is working with the U.S. Department of Energy to nail down details. She doesn’t have an exact timeline at the moment.
To assist low-income households, the legislation includes rebates to slash the cost of appliances up front. Buyers who make 80% or less of their area median income would be eligible for the largest rebates. These include:
“It’ll just take a little bit of time to get the ball rolling,” Gómez said. Are those all of the discounts?
The City of Denver had offered home electrification rebates, but its program reached capacity this summer. It plans to reopen applications sometime this fall.
The Inflation Reduction Act includes incentives and discounts for green home renovations, such as replacing fossil-fuel appliances with electric alternatives. But many programs don’t kick off until 2023.
ne goal of the Inflation Reduction Act, the massive climate and health care bill President Biden signed last month, is to make it a whole lot cheaper to wean homes off fossil fuels. The law marks the largest climate investment in U.S. history, with roughly $370 billion set aside for programs that reduce emissions. It includes $9 billion in home energy rebates to help residents make their homes more energy efficient and purchase new electric appliances like stoves and waterTheheaters. looming question now is when consumers might actually benefit. While an expanded solar tax credit takes effect immediately, many of the other incentives are set to kick in after the end of the year. Josh Lake, co-founder of Boulder-based Elephant Energy, which renovates homes to run on electricity instead of fossil fuels, said since the legislation passed, many of his customers have called to ask about discounts from Uncle Sam. He confesses he is still sorting through the legislation itself. “Just like everyone, we’re trying to learn and understand how it’s all going to play out, so stayed tuned,” Lake said. In the meantime, some details are clear. If you live in Colorado and want to make your home more climate friendly, here’s a quick guide to incentives already out there and when to expect other discounts to kick in. Why ‘electrify’ a home? In Colorado, buildings themselves are the third-largest source of greenhouse gas emissions after transportation and electricity generation. One major reason is the ubiquity of natural gas furnaces, which warm about 68% of homes across the state, according to federal data.
Utilities and local communities have separate discounts.
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Climate scientists and policymakers see replacing those appliances as critical to reducing planet-warming emissions. While the electric grid heavily relies on fossil fuels, utilities are investing in a rapid transition to renewables. Adding electric appliances ensures a home can take advantage of new wind and solar power as its added to the grid.
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Most of the potential savings from the legislation would kick in sometime next year.
• Up to $4,400 for a breaker box upgrade
The up-front rebates would be administered by state governments. Calisch expects the programs will be up and running sometime in 2023.
Those deductions are limited up to $1,200 per household with a notable exception: A household installing a heat pump can deduct up to $2,000 in a single tax year.
• Up to $8,000 for a heat pump
• Up to $1,750 for a heat pump water heater • Up to $1,600 for insulation and air sealing • Up to $840 for an electric stove or clothes dryer
I wish I had done this earlier in my life, but also, I don’t know if I would have been able to do it earlier. You know, you find wonderful things in your life and they come at the right time because it’s the right time. I don’t know if I would have had the confidence to collaborate with other artists earlier. I don’t know what changed, but it’s been absolutely lifechanging to make music with other people. It’s always been really scary to show people how little I know.
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What has rekindled your desire to express yourself musically lately?
I am excited to debut my newest musical project, ORA, at Channel 37 on Oct. 15. It’s going to be heavy.
objectively positive. Like, “Life is beautiful! Seize the moment! Look at the sunset!” Now with a little more life experience I don’t think you have to be so literal. That’s not to say my songs are sad, but they are definitely a little darker, a little heavier. I’m focusing more on themes like mythology and the shadow as opposed to falling in love and traveling.
I needed a break from it for a while, and I think it’s completely normal for an artist to need a break. Sometimes you just get too zoomed in. And I think when you get a little too zoomed in on anything, life can feel distorted. After spending a good decade zoomed out, I can approach it with a fresh, new perspective. It means less to me now that I’m older and I have more context in my life. Having art mean less gives me more freedom to make the art that I want to. From a place of fun, from a place where I don’t feel like my entire identity hinges on the next thing that I paint, write, draw or sing. It’s my friends that have helped the most, though. I needed the accountability of friends to pull me into a project. I think most of the struggle of getting art out into the world is just the struggle of starting. You just have to (start). There’s a pretty big difference between the music you’ve made in the past and what you’ve been writing lately. The evolution in my music probably reflects the evolution that every person goes through from their early 20s to their 30s. When I was making music before, I felt this immense pressure to bring something positive to the world. So I thought I had to sing something that was
Sept. 8, 2022 n 11telegraph by Stephen Sellers Greetings, readers! Happy September!
And to my surprise, it doesn’t even really matter that much. It also takes off a lot of the pressure to be perfect because there’s three other people, and we’re creating music that’s way cooler and way bigger than anything I could have dreamed up by myself. Where are you playing next?
I would like to issue my mother an early “happy birthday” and to do so in a fine publication like the Telegraph. She’s beaten cancer twice, dealt with me as a teenager and just kicked another insanely dangerous life-threatening disease to the curb last month. May this occasion be forever memorialized for generations to come. I love you so much! Viva Denette! For this week’s “Between the Beats,” I sat down with one of my best friends, bandmate and all around bad jackson, Annie Brooks. I first met Annie and her husband years ago at a show at the nowdefunct Summit. She asked me to play bass for her album debut at the Abbey Theater (now Aminas City Theatre), and I was thrilled to join her for the sold-out show.Annie decided to put her music aside shortly thereafter and started a highly successful illustration business. She also traveled to more than 50 countries with her husband for fashion shoots, indie films and photography workshops, all while pursuing her passion for a balanced, rich life complete with roller skating. And now, after a nearly decade-long hiatus, she’s picking up the guitar again – trading a mahogany Martin and the indie-pop of her early 20s for an Epiphone semi-hollow body and a whole lot of fuzz. In the last six months, she’s been in heavy rotation at the iAM Music showcases and songwriter’s nights as well as at local venues like Toast Records & Bakes and Fenceline Cider. What is your earliest musical memory? My first musical memory is sitting with my mom on her waterbed in the ’80s. She had bought me a half-sized guitar – I was 5 years old – and was teaching me how to play “Hush, Little Baby.” I grew up in a very musical context. Sleeping backstage in guitar cases, running around the house while my parents were rehearsing for a show, so it’s hard to pinpoint a particular memory. I was raised by touring folk musicians. A couple times a year we would pack up and go live in the back seat of a car on tour. Did you ever think that music would be your path as an adult? Growing up, I kind of thought that either art or music were the only logical paths to take because that’s what was being modeled. So, it kind of felt like, “Oh, I’ll take over the family business. I will become a musician or an artist.” It seemed like a very practical, logical life choice. Just like banking or woodworking. I think it was really cool, and I was really fortunate to grow up with parents who encouraged creativity. To them, that was practical. I never doubted that art could put food on that table.
A lot of your musical career has been solo and now you’re playing with a band. What has stood out to you about the experience of going from solo to collaborating with other musicians?
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Live music, 5 p.m., Diamond Belle, 699 Main Ave.
Devin Scott, 6:30 p.m., The Office, 699 Main Ave.
Coal: The Other Black Gold, presentation hosted by Animas Museum, 1-2 p.m. Register at animasmuseum.org/events.html
“Higher Together: Celebrating Durango’s Climbing Community,” 6-9 p.m., Pine Needle Mountaineering. Featuring films from Patagonia. Silent auction, proceeds benefitting the Durango Climber’s Coalition. durangoclimberscoalition@gmail.com.
Ragwater & The Batteries play, 8 p.m., Animas City Theatre.
Montana Sand plays, 1-4 p.m., 11th Street Station. Pride parade, 2 p.m., downtown Durango. Followed by Pride festival, 3-7 p.m., Buckley Park. Artists in the Parklet: Karen Valdez, 4 p.m., Maria’s Bookshop, 960 Main Ave. Durango Roller Girls Bout, facing Ark Valley High Rollers, Chapman Hill. Doors at 5 p.m., “Fresh Meat” bout at 6 p.m., main event at 7 p.m. Live music, 5 p.m., Diamond Belle, 699 Main Ave. Live music, 5 p.m., The Office, 699 Main Ave. Artists in the Parklet: Amy Ellwein, 5:30 p.m., Maria’s Bookshop, 960 Main Ave. Kirk James Band plays, 6-9 p.m., Weminuche Woodfire Grill, Vallecito.
Community Yoga, 6-7 p.m., Yoga Durango, 1485 Florida Rd. Donations accepted. Keenan Hammack plays, 6 p.m., Durango Hot Springs. Lizard Head Quartet plays, 7-10 p.m., 11th Street Station.
Thursdays, bring extra veggies and fruit for people in need, 8:30 a.m., Animas Valley Grange, 7271 CR 203. Ska-BQ with Black Velvet, 5 p.m., Ska Brewing, 225 Girard St. Live music, 5 p.m., Diamond Belle, 699 Main Ave. Live music, 5 p.m., The Office, 699 Main Ave.
Trivia Night, 6:30 p.m., Powerhouse Science Center, 1333 Camino del Rio. Lost Ox plays, 7-10 p.m., 11th Street Station.
Open Mic, 2 p.m., Mancos Brewing Co. Open Mic, 5 p.m., Fenceline Cider, Mancos.
Comedy Show, 6:30 p.m., Olde Tymers Café, 1000 Main Ave.
Live music, 5 p.m., Diamond Belle, 699 Main Ave. Live music, 5 p.m., The Office, 699 Main Ave.
WholeExpo, showcase of holistic and ecological products, services and seminars, 10 a.m., La Plata County Fairgrounds, 2500 Main Ave.
Trivia, 7 p.m., Weminuche Woodfire Grill, Vallecito.
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Saturday10DurangoFarmers Market, 8 a.m.-12 noon, TBK Bank parking lot, live music by Kitchen Jam Band.
Bayfield Farmers Market, 8 a.m., 1328 CR 501. Homebuyer Education Class, 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m., Fort Lewis College. Register at homesfund.org WholeExpo, showcase of holistic and ecological products, services and seminars, 10 a.m., La Plata County Fairgrounds, 2500 Main Ave. Garden Conversation with CSU Extension agent Darrin Parmenter, 10 a.m., Durango Nursey & Supply, 271 Kaycee Lane. Walk to End Alzheimer’s, 10 a.m., Rotary Park.
Comedy Open Mic, 8 p.m., Starlight Lounge, 937 Main Ave.
Pride drag brunch, 10-11:30 a.m., Olde Tymers Cafe, 1000 Main Ave.
Sunday11DurangoFleaMarket, 8 a.m., La Plata County Fairgrounds, 2500 Main Ave.
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Jack Ellis Band plays, 6 p.m., Fur Trappers Steakhouse, 701 E. 2nd Ave.
Terry Rickard plays, 1-4 p.m., 11th Street Station.
The Jeff Solon Jazz Duo plays, 6-8 p.m., Lola’s Place, 725 E. 2nd Ave. Donny Johnson plays, 6 p.m., Fur Trappers Steakhouse, 701 E. 2nd Ave. Drama Club plays, 6 p.m., Durango Hot Springs. Pride movie night, 6:30 p.m., Animas City Theatre
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Silent Disco, 10 p.m.-12:30 a.m., 11th Street Station.
Jazz Jam, 6-9 p.m., 11th Street Station.
Monday12Livemusic , 5 p.m., Diamond Belle, 699 Main Ave.
Pride kick off, 5:30 p.m., Lola’s Place, 725 E. 2nd Ave.
Jack Ellis & Larry Carver play, 6-9 p.m., Derailed Pour House, 725 Main Ave.
That’s So Durango, variety show, 2 p.m., Durango Arts Center, 802 E. 2nd Ave.
That’s So Durango, variety show, 7 p.m., Durango Arts Center, 802 E. 2nd Ave.
Artists in the Parklet: Jon Powell, 5:30 p.m., Maria’s Bookshop, 960 Main Ave.
Nu Bass Theory & Bright Side Blue play, 8-10 p.m., iNDIGO Room, 1315 Main Ave.
Live music, 5 p.m., Office Spiritorium, 699 Main Ave.
Kirk James plays, 6-9 p.m., Union Social House, 3062 Main Ave. Ru Paul’s Drag Race Watch Party, every Friday, 68 p.m., Father’s Daughters Pizza, 640 Main Ave.
Montana Sand plays, 11 a.m.-2 p.m., Turtle Lake Café, 848 E. 3rd Ave. Artists in the Parklet: Many Mikulencak, 4 p.m., Maria’s Bookshop, 960 Main Ave. Free legal clinic, 4-5 p.m., Ignacio Library, 470 Goddard Ave. Ancient History plays, 5 p.m., Mancos Brewing Co.
Friday09GaryWalker plays, 10 a.m.-12 noon, Jean-Pierre Bakery & Restaurant, 601 Main Ave.
Smelter Mountain Boys play, 6 p.m., Weminuche Woodfire Grill, Vallecito. Jeff Solon plays, 6-9 p.m., Fox Fire Farms, Ignacio. Ben Gibson plays, 6 p.m., Fur Trappers Steakhouse, 701 E. 2nd Ave. Haro in the Dark plays, 7-10 p.m., 11th St. Station. That’s So Durango, variety show, 7 p.m., Durango Arts Center, 802 E. 2nd Ave. Adam Swanson performs “Ragtime to Rhapsody,” 7:30 p.m., Fort Lewis College’s Community Concert Hall. High Country Hustle & People We Know play, 8 p.m., Animas City Theatre.
Pastor & the Pagan play, 6 p.m., Union Social House, 3062 Main Ave. BrettLynn plays, 6 p.m., Fenceline Cider, Mancos.
Ohana Kuleana Community Garden Open House, 10 a.m.-1 p.m., 564 E. 30th St.
– (Can’t get no) disconnection, Rachel Dear Rachel, My dogs are waking me up regularly but indirectly at 5:45 every morning. Used to be they woke me up directly at 6 a.m. on the dot with a nose to the mouth. Now they are barking at something outside, every dang day, and I can’t figure out what. No wild animal is that consistent. It must be a jogger, right? One of those predawn loonies with a genetic flaw allowing them to wake up raring to go? Am I within my rights to let my dogs loose on them?–Alarm Clocked Dear Wake Up Serviced, Your dogs aren’t barking at diddly. They’re barking FOR diddly. And you, my friend, are the diddly. Dogs are smart. Even the dumb ones are smart enough to learn the ol’ “bark bark bark oh hey look you’re awake while you’re up anyway wanna play and/or feed me?” trick. Ask not for whom the dogs bark. They bark for thee. – Woof, Rachel Dear Rachel, I try so hard not to be prejudiced. You can’t judge a book by its cover and all that. But what do you do when experience leads to prejudice?
OngoingTicoTimeUnison Festival, Sept. 8-11, Tico Time Resort, near Aztec. ticotimeresort.com.
Merely Players present Shakespeare’s “As You Like It,” Sept. 23, 24, 29, 30 & Oct. 1 at 7 p.m., Sept. 25 & Oct. 2 at 2 p.m. Merely Underground, 789 Tech Center Dr. merelyplayers.org
Dear Rachel, I’m writing you with the last squeeze of juice on my phone. It’s doing this confounded thing where the battery is draining despite being plugged in and indicating that it’s charging. It feels like climbing a muddy slope and sliding downhill with each movement. The way they say not to struggle if you land in quicksand. Anywhoo, any advice for getting my phone back to life, knowing by the time you answer this I’ve been phoneless for days and days? – Final Words
Dear Running Dry, Oh you’ve just asked a great unanswerable. Both IT workers I’ve ever known admit their entire job is “turn it off and turn it back on.” You’ve presumably turned it off already. But now you can’t turn it back on. You’re caught in limbo, the great technological paradox. You are also the rare human without Wi-Fi. Run. Run far. Get out. Be free. And remember all of us fondly.
Live music, 5 p.m., Diamond Belle Saloon, 699 Main Ave. Live music, 5 p.m., Office Spiritorium, 699 Main Ave. Shanta Foundation’s Fall Fundraiser, 5:30-7:30 p.m., River Bend Ranch, 27846 Highway www.shantafoundation.org/developmentunderfire550.
Trivia Night, 6 p.m., Zia’s north, 2977 Main Ave. Leah O plays, 6 p.m., Fur Trappers Steakhouse, 701 E. 2nd Ave. Paint & Sip Night, 6:30 p.m., Starlight Lounge, 937 Main Ave. Phutureprimitive & Pyramidic play, 7 p.m., Animas City Theatre. “Update on Chaco Solstice Project,” 7 p.m., Ballroom at Fort Lewis College. Hosted by San Juan Basin Archaeological Society, SJBAS.org. Dustin Burley plays, 7-10 p.m., 11th Street Station.
Kiwanis Pancake Day, Sept. 15, 7 a.m.-7 p.m., La Plata County Fairgrounds, 2500 Main Ave. Ska-BQ with A-Mac & The Height, Sept. 15, 5 p.m., Ska Brewing, 225 Girard St. Banff Mountain Film Festival, Sept. 16 & 17, 7-9 p.m., Fort Lewis College’s Community Concert Hall. sanjuancitizens.org/banff Silverton Summer Sounds: Stillhouse String Band plays, Sept. 16, 6 p.m., Memorial Park, Silverton, 1800 Greene St.
Devo Film Festival, Sept. 16, dual slalom race 4:30-6:30 p.m., feature film “Esperanto,” 7 p.m., Chapman Hill, 500 Florida Road Pianos in the Park, Sept. 17, 10 a.m.-3 p.m., Minium Park, Aztec. Festival featuring music and food, performances by students and professionals.
– Howdy neighbors, Rachel
Poet Natalie Diaz, 6 p.m., Fort Lewis College Community Concert Hall. Folk Punk Show, featuring Robber’s Roost, Neighborhood Skeletons, Joel Placencio & Delicate Flower, 7:30-10 p.m., The Hive, 1150 Main Ave. Open Mic Night, weekly 7:30-9:30 p.m., Starlight Lounge, 937 Main Ave.
Geeks Who Drink Trivia, 8 p.m., The Roost, 128 E. College Dr.
Durango Autumn Arts Festival, Sept. 17 & 18, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., E. Second Ave. between College Drive and 10th St.
Native Artist Market & Juried Show, Sept. 9-11, Southern Ute Cultural Center & Museum, 503 Ouray Dr., Ignacio.
Tuesday13TwinButtesFarm Stand, 3-5:30 p.m., 165 Tipple Ave. Live music, 5 p.m., Diamond Belle Saloon, 699 Main Ave. Live music, 5 p.m., Office Spiritorium, 699 Main Ave. Men in Heels Fundraiser, 5:30-7 p.m., relay race to benefit the Women’s Resource Center and Gena Rych Scholarship Fund. events@wrcdurango.org
Interesting fact: When the U.S. acquired the Mexican Cession in 1848, Durango was considered part of New Mexico. There but for la gracia de dios go we.
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Comedy Open Mic, weekly, 9 p.m., 11th St. Station.
That’s So Durango, art show thru Sept. 29. Durango Arts Center, 802 E. 2nd Ave. durangoarts.org.
When you can’t help but notice definite behavioral trends with a certain group of people? Because every freaking time I end up in the vicinity of a New Mexico license plate, I narrowly avoid an accident. Even if I’m not in a car! Sure, #notallNMdrivers, but I’ve yet to meet the exception. – Defensive Driver Dear Platist, I once had a loaner car while mine was in the shop, and it came with the dreaded yellows. I was stunned to see just how much more room my fellow Coloradans gave me on the road. It was a luxury I could get used to. Still, I can’t defend our southern neighbors’ drivers ed standards. “Red or green?” is actually a game of chance with them. But don’t hit the hard reset just yet: my opinions warmed when I saw all the women’s health care provider maps this summer, and in a nation of “Handmaid’s Tale,” there stood New Mexico in the same safe colors as us.
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AskRachelPowering down, learning new tricks & dreaded yellows
Shock Wave Drag Night, first and third Friday of every month, 9 p.m., Father’s Daughters Pizza, 640 Main Ave. 18+
The Hive Indoor Skate Park, open skate and skate lessons. Waivers required. For schedule and online waiver, go to www.thehivedgo.org
UpcomingCSUExtensionWebinar: Fruit Trees for the Front Range, Sept. 14, 12 noon, https://bit.ly/3wYTNe6
Serenity Festival, Sept. 15-18, Tico Time Resort, near Aztec. ticotimeresort.com.
Wednesday14GreatGardenSeries:Regenerative Agriculture, 4 p.m., Durango Public Library.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22):
CANCER (June 21-July 22): Cancerian drummer Ringo Starr is in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Though he has received less acclaim than his fellow Beatles, many critics recognize him as a skillful and original drummer. How did he get started? At age 13, he contracted tuberculosis and lived in a sanatorium for two years. The medical staff encouraged him to join the hospital band, hoping it would stimulate his motor skills and alleviate boredom. Ringo used a makeshift mallet to bang the cabinet near his bed. Good practice! That’s how his misfortune led to his joy and success. Is there an equivalent story in your life, Cancerian? The coming months will be a good time to take that story to its next level.
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by Rob Brezsny ARIES (March 21-April 19):
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): If I had to choose a mythic deity to be your symbolic helper, I would pick Venus. The planet Venus is ruler of your sign, and the goddess Venus is the maven of beauty and love, which are key to your happiness. But I would also assign Hephaestus to you Tauruses. He was the Greek god of the metalworking forge. He created Zeus’s thunderbolts, Hermes’ winged helmet, Aphrodite’s magic bra, Achilles’ armor, Eros’ bow and arrows, and the thrones for all the deities in Olympus. The things he made were elegant and useful. I nominate him to be your spirit guide during the next 10 months. May he inspire you to be a generous source of practical beauty.
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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): One of the inspiring experiments I hope you will attempt in the coming months is to work on loving another person as wildly and deeply and smartly as you love yourself. In urging you to try this exercise, I don’t mean to imply that I have a problem with you loving yourself wildly and deeply and smartly. I endorse your efforts to keep increasing the intensity and ingenuity with which you adore and care for yourself. But here’s a secret: Learning to summon a monumental passion for another soul may have the magic power of enhancing your love for yourself.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): My Piscean friend Luna sent me a message that sums up how I feel about you these days. I’ll repeat it here in the hope it will inspire you to be perfectly yourself. Luna said, “Every time I meet someone who was born within like two weeks of my birthday, I end up with the impression that they are the loopiest and wisest person I’ve met in a long time. They are totally ridiculous and worthy of profound respect. They are unhinged and brilliantly focused. They are fuzzy-headed dreamers who couldn’t possibly ever get anything practical accomplished, and they are lyrical thinkers who charm me with their attunement to the world’s beauty and impress me with their understanding of how the world works. Hahahahaha. Luckily for me, I know the fool is sacred.”
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): When you are functioning at your best, you Scorpios crave only the finest, top-quality highs. You embrace joys and pleasures that generate epiphanies and vitalizing transformations. Mediocre varieties of fun don’t interest you. You avoid debilitating indulgences that provide brief excitement but spawn long-term problems. In the coming weeks, dear Scorpio, I hope you will embody these descriptions. It’s crucial that you seek gratifications and delectations that uplift you, ennoble you, and bless your future.
Tips to get the most out of the coming weeks: 1. Exercise your will power at random moments just to keep it limber. 2. Be adept at fulfilling your own hype. 3. Argue for fun. Be playful and frisky as you banter. Disagree for the sport of it, without feeling attached to being right or needing the last word. 4. Be unable to understand how anyone can resist you or not find you alluring. 5. Declare yourself President of Everything, then stage a coup d’état. 6. Smile often when you have no reason to. 7. If you come upon a “square peg, round hole” situation, change the shape of the hole.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Libran author Katherine Mansfield wrote, “The mind I love must have wild places, a tangled orchard where dark damsons drop in the heavy grass, an overgrown little wood, the chance of a snake or two, and a pool that nobody’s fathomed the depth of.” Be inspired by her in the coming weeks, Libra. I suspect you will flourish if you give yourself the luxury of exploring your untamed side. The time is ripe to wander in nature and commune with exciting influences outside your comfort zone. What uncharted frontier would you enjoy visiting?
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): In the film “I Origins,” a scientist says to a lover: “When the Big Bang happened, all the atoms in the universe were smashed together into one little dot that exploded outward. So my atoms and your atoms were together then … my atoms have always known your atoms.” Although this sounds poetic, it’s true in a literal sense: The atoms that compose you and me and everyone else were originally all squeezed together in a tiny space. We knew each other intimately! The coming days will be an excellent time to celebrate your fundamental link with the rest of the universe. You’ll be extra receptive to feeling connection. You’ll be especially adept at fitting your energy together with that of others. You’ll love the sensation of being united, merged, blended.
Musician Viv Albertine has recorded four albums and played guitar for the Slits, a famous punk band. She has also written two books and worked as a TV director for 20 years. Her accomplishments are impressive. Yet she also acknowledges that she has spent a lot of time in bed for many reasons: needing to rest, seeking refuge to think and meditate, recovering from illness, feeling overwhelmed or lonely or sad. She admiringly cites other creative people who, like her, have worked in their beds: Emily Dickinson, Patti Smith, Edith Sitwell and Frida Kahlo. I mention this, Virgo, because the coming days will be an excellent time for you to seek sanctuary and healing and creativity in bed.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): To be a true Gemini, you must yearn for knowledge – whether it’s about coral reefs, ancient maps of Sumer, sex among jellyfish, mini-black holes, your friends’ secrets, or celebrity gossip. You need to be an eternal student who craves education. Are some things more important to learn than others? Of course, but that gauge is not always apparent in the present. A seemingly minor clue or trick you glean today may become unexpectedly helpful a month from now. With that perspective in mind, I encourage you to be promiscuous in your lust for new information and teachings in the coming weeks.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “Wish on everything,” Sagittarian author Francesca Lia Block advises. “Pink cars are good, especially old ones. And first stars and shooting stars. Planes will do if they are the first light in the sky and look like stars. Wish in tunnels, holding your breath and lifting your feet off the ground. Birthday candles. Baby teeth.” Your homework during the next two weeks, Sagittarius, is to build a list of further marvels that you will wish on. It’s the Magic Wish season of the year for you: a time when you’re more likely than usual to encounter and generate miracles. Be proactive! Oh, and very important: What are your three top wishes?
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Author Aldous Huxley wrote, “That people do not learn much from the lessons of history is the most important lesson that history has to teach.” While his observation is true much of the time, I don’t think it will be so for you in the coming weeks. I suspect you will triumph over past patterns that have repeated and repeated themselves. You will study your life story and figure out what you must do to graduate from lessons you have finally, completely learned.
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Circle Descend in your body to hear its messages where feelings become sensations and sensations become images; they are the fertile ground of the subconscious where imagination leads the way of healing towards awakening. Every Thursday from 6 to 8 pm, in Durango (CO). Contact Isa Vasanti for more info. Isavasanti@ gmail.com https://new-earth.circle.so/ Nadya/Tron Art Sale Bayfield Pine River Library, 50% off. Sale thru Sept. Personal tours – 970-5631042. WantedSrCpl
Harmony Cleaning and Organizing Residential, offices, commercial and vacation rentals, 970-403-6192. Lowest Prices on Storage! Inside/outside storage near Durango and Bayfield. 10-x-20, $130. Outside spots: $65, with discounts available. RJ Mini Storage. 970-259-3494.
Self Employment Original cutting board designs, 13” Delta bandsaw, Delta floor mount drill press, sanders, workbench. All inclusive, $850. 970-394-4505 (cell) / 970-533-7943.
Healing Arts Now accepting new clients. Offering a unique, intuitive fusion of Esalen massage, deep tissue & Acutonics, 24 years of experience. To schedule call Kathryn, 970-201-3373. Massage by Meg Bush LMT, 30, 60 & 90 min., 970-759-0199.
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HaikuMovieReview‘Vengeance’ Should you watch this film with Farm-Town’s Chevel Shepherd? One hundred percent. – Lainie Maxson classifieds 259-5551 441 College Dr. Pizza so good you don’t care how weird the delivery guy is. TeleFlashBack2002
New inventory including nightstands, dressers, mirrors, rugs, dishes and glassware plus lots of other cool furnishings and art … Come in today! 572 E. 6th Ave. Open Mon.-Sat. 385-7336.
GoPro Camera Hero 5. A few years old but only used once or twice and otherwise just sat in a drawer. It is deserving of a more exciting owner! $150 OBO. Text 970-749-2595
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